Sachsen-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt
Flag	Coat of arms
Details
Location
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Administration
Country	Germany
NUTS Region	DEE
Capital	Magdeburg
Largest city	Halle
Minister-President	Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU)
Governing parties	CDU / SPD
Votes in Bundesrat	4 (of 69)
Basic statistics
Area	20,445 km² (7,894 sq mi)
Population	2,420,000 (09/2007)[1]
- Density	118 /km² (307 /sq mi)
Other information
GDP/ Nominal	€ 48 billion (2005)
Website	sachsen-anhalt.de

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The state's name is sometimes spelled Saxony Anhalt in English (without the hyphen).

Contents 1 Geography 2 Administrative subdivision 3 History 3.1 The Duchy of Saxony 3.2 Electoral Saxony 3.3 Saxon Kings of Poland 4 Politics 4.1 List of minister presidents of Saxony-Anhalt 4.1.1 1945-1952 4.1.2 1990 to date 4.2 March 26, 2006 state election 5 Economy 6 Anthem 7 External links 8 References

Geography

Saxony-Anhalt is one of 16 states in the Federal Republic of Germany. It covers a total area of 20,445 sq km (12,676 sq. miles). By size, it is the 8th largest state in Germany, and by population, the 10th largest. It borders the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. Brandenburg ( Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen ˈzaksən Swobodny Stat Sakska is the easternmost federal state of Germany. The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen is located in central Germany. Lower Saxony ( German: Niedersachsen ch is pronounced before an s --> lies in north-western Germany and is second

The capital of Saxony-Anhalt is Magdeburg. It is the second largest city in the state, after Halle. Nearby is the city of Dessau, where the "Bauhaus" is located. The Bauhaus provided a basis for the field of architecture and fine arts in the area. ("House of Building" or "Building School" is the common term for the, a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts and was famous Dessau is also home to the opulent Dessau-Wörlitz garden complex. The city’s main attraction is the Wörlitzer Park which is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The landscape of Saxony-Anhalt is quite varied. From the region of Altmark in the north, the state extends from the Magdeburg region, a vast lowland, through the Harz, a low mountain range, until one comes to Thuringia. The highest mountain in the vicinity is Brocken, with an elevation of 1,141 meters (3,735 ft). Below the summit, there is a national park called Hochharz, which is an extensive wildlife sanctuary. All of this, as well as many other beautiful places of interest, are easily reachable on day excursions.

See also List of places in Saxony-Anhalt. This is a list of geographical features in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Administrative subdivision

From 1994 to 2003, Saxony-Anhalt was divided into 21 districts ("Landkreise"). Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Above this level, there were three governmental districts (Regierungsbezirke): Dessau, Halle and Magdeburg. A Regierungsbezirk is a type of government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states ( ''Bundesländer'') Dessau was one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, located in the east of the country Halle was one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, located in the south of the country Magdeburg was one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, located in the north of the country On January 1, 2004 these three governmental districts were abolished. New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again "

A further reform, effective from July 2007, reduced the 21 districts to 11 districts (Landkreise):

• Altmarkkreis Salzwedel
• Anhalt-Bitterfeld
• Börde
• Burgenlandkreis
• Harz
• Jerichower Land
• Mansfeld-Südharz
• Saalekreis
• Salzlandkreis
• Stendal
• Wittenberg

and three urban districts (Stadtkreise):

• Dessau-Roßlau
• Halle (Saale)
• Magdeburg

History

The geographical concept of Saxony has undergone considerable shifts over the course of the past 15 centuries. Kreisreform Sachsen-Anhalt 2007 (or Kreisgebietsreform 2007) is a law in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, coming into effect on July 1, 2007 Altmarkkreis Salzwedel is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Anhalt-Bitterfeld is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Its capital is Köthen (Anhalt. Börde is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. History The district Burgenlandkreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. History The district was established by merging the former districts of Burgenlandkreis Harz is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. History The district was Jerichower Land is a district ( Kreis) in the north-east of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Mansfeld-Südharz is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. History The Saalekreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. History The district Salzland is a district in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Stendal (ˈʃtɛndaːl is a district ( Kreis) in the north-east of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is a district ( Kreis) in the east of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. is a district-free town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Elbe and Mulde. Halle is the largest city in the German State of Saxony-Anhalt. Magdeburg ( Low Saxon: Meideborg ˈmaˑɪdebɔɐx the Capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany The land of the Saxons, Saxony was in Frankish times roughly the area of northwestern Germany between the rivers Elbe and Ems; it also included part of south Jutland. This area corresponds roughly to that of the federal German state of Lower Saxony established after World War II and western parts of Saxony-Anhalt.

The Duchy of Saxony

After Charlemagne's conquest (772–804) of the Saxons, their homeland was incorporated in the Carolingian empire. By the latter half of the 9th century it was recognized as the duchy of Saxony. Comprising the four divisions of Westphalia, Angria, Eastphalia, and Holstein, it embraced nearly all the territory between the Elbe and Saale rivers on the east and the Rhine on the west, and bordered on Franconia and Thuringia in the south. Duke Henry I (Henry the Fowler) of Saxony was elected German king in 919. His son, Emperor Otto I, bestowed (961) Saxony on Hermann Billung (d. 973), a Saxon nobleman, whose descendants held the duchy until the extinction of the male line in 1106. Lothair of Supplinburg (Lothair III) bestowed it on his Guelphic son-in-law, Henry the Proud, who was already duke of Bavaria. Lothair III of Supplinburg (1075 &ndash 1137 was Duke of Saxony (1106 King of Germany (1125 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1133 to 1137

In 1142 the duchy passed to Henry the Lion, son of Henry the Proud. The struggle between Henry the Lion and Emperor Frederick I ended with Henry's loss of all his fiefs in 1180. The duchy was broken up into numerous fiefs. The Guelphic heirs of Henry the Lion retained only their allodial lands, the duchy of Brunswick. The ducal title of Saxony was passed to Bernard of Anhalt, a younger son of Albert the Bear of Brandenburg and founder of the Ascanian line of Saxon dukes. Besides Anhalt, Bernard received Lauenburg and the country around Wittenberg, on the Elbe. These widely separate territories continued after 1260 under separate branches of the Ascanians as Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg.

Electoral Saxony

The Golden Bull of 1356 raised the duke of Saxe-Wittenberg to the hereditary rank of elector, i. e. , member of the college that elected the Holy Roman Emperor. Electoral Saxony, as his territory was called, was a relatively small area along the middle Elbe. To the south of Electoral Saxony extended the margraviate of Meissen, ruled by the increasingly powerful house of Wettin. The margraves of Meissen acquired (13th–14th cent. ) the larger parts of Thuringia and of Lower Lusatia and the intervening territories, and in 1423 Margrave Frederick the Warlike added Electoral Saxony; he became (1425) Elector Frederick I. Thus, the land known as "Saxony" shifted southeastward from the original Saxon homeland in northwestern Germany.

In 1485 the Wettin lands were partitioned between two sons of Elector Frederick II; the division came to be permanent. Ernest, founder of the Ernestine branch of Wettin, received Electoral Saxony with Wittenberg and most of the Thuringian lands. Albert, founder of the Albertine branch, received ducal rank and the Meissen territories, including Dresden and Leipzig. Duke Maurice of Saxony, a grandson of Albert and a Protestant, received the electoral title in the 16th century; it remained in the Albertine branch until the dissolution (1806) of the Holy Roman Empire.

Saxon Kings of Poland

The rivalry between Saxony and Brandenburg (after 1701 the kingdom of Prussia) was a decisive factor in later Saxon history, as was the election (1697) of elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony as king of Poland (King Augustus II); the personal union contributed to the formation of close economic ties between the declining Poland and Saxony, whose prestige was thereby diminished. In the War of the Austrian Succession, Saxony adhered to what had become its traditional wavering policy, changing sides in the middle of the conflict. The death (1763) of Augustus III ended the union with Poland.

The period of Saxon rule in Poland marked a time of economic and social decay but of cultural and artistic flowering. Augustus II and Augustus III were lavish patrons of art and learning and greatly beautified their capital, Dresden. The universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig had long been leading intellectual centers, and 18th-century Leipzig led in the rise of German literature as well as in music, which reached its first peak in J. S. Bach.

Saxony sided with Prussia against France early in the French Revolutionary Wars, but changed sides in 1806. For this act its elector was raised to royal rank, becoming King Frederick Augustus I. His failure to change sides again before Napoleon's fall cost him (1815) nearly half his kingdom at the Congress of Vienna. The kingdom of Saxony lost Lower Lusatia, part of Upper Lusatia, and all its northern territory including Wittenberg and Merseburg to Prussia. Its principal remaining cities were Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, and Plauen. The larger part of the territories ceded in 1815 were incorporated with several other Prussian districts into the Prussian province of Saxony, with Magdeburg its capital. This was united after 1945 with Anhalt to form the state of Saxony-Anhalt and became part of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1949. The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state From 1952 to 1990 Saxony-Anhalt was divided into the East German districts of Halle, Magdeburg, Cottbus, Leipzig and Potsdam. In 1990, prior to German reunification, the districts were reintegrated as a state.

Politics

List of minister presidents of Saxony-Anhalt

1945-1952

1. 1945 - 1949: Erhard Hübener (LDPD)
2. 1949 - 1952: Werner Bruschke (SED)

1990 to date

1. 1990 - 1991: Gerd Gies (CDU)
2. 1991 - 1993: Werner Münch (CDU)
3. 1993 - 1994: Christoph Bergner (CDU)
4. 1994 - 2002: Reinhard Höppner (SPD)
5. since 2002: Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU)

March 26, 2006 state election

See also: Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2006

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Party	Party List votes	Vote percentage	Total Seats	Seat percentage
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	326,712	36. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) is the largest Political party in Germany. 2%	40	41. 2%
The Left Party (Die LINKE(PDS/WASG))	217,285	24. The Left (Die Linke is a German political party that came into being on 16 June 2007 as a merger of The Left Party/PDS the former 1%	26	26. 8%
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	192,754	21. 4%	24	24. 7%
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	60,207	6. The Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP is a liberal Political party in Germany. 7%	7	7. 2%
Alliance '90/The Greens	32,118	3. The Alliance '90/The Greens ( Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) the German Green party, is a Political party in Germany whose regional 6%	0	0. 0%
German People's Union (DVU)	26,894	3. The German People's Union (Deutsche Volksunion DVU is a Nationalist Political party in Germany. 0%	0	0. 0%
All Others	46,235	5. 0%	0	0. 0%
Totals	902,205	100. 0%	97	100. 0%

Economy

Saxony Anhalt is famous for its good soil. The "Magdeburger Börde" contains the best soil in all of Germany and some of the best of Europe. The food industry has an important role in this state. Some of the best known products are "Baumkuchen" from Salzwedel (Altmark) or "Hallorenkugeln" from Halle. The Halloren Chocolate Factory (Halloren Schokoladenfabrik is the oldest German Chocolate factory Halle is the largest city in the German State of Saxony-Anhalt.

In the industrial sector the chemical industry is quite important. One of the biggest chemical producing areas can be found around the cities of Wolfen and Bitterfeld. Because of the chemical industry, Saxony Anhalt is the largest receiver of FDIs (Foreign Direct Investments) in all of eastern Germany.

Saxony Anhalt is also the location of numerous "wind farms" throughout the state producing wind-turbine energy. See http://www.wsb.de/home_leistungen_referenzen.html.

Anthem

• Lied für Sachsen-Anhalt ("Song for Saxony-Anhalt")

External links

• Official governmental portal
• Webportal Saxony-Anhalt
• Für Musikinteressierte aus Sachsen-Anhalt

References

 

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